Infowar

As computers and the Internet became increasingly important to modern
societies, military strategy evolved to take them into account.

Advanced societies rely on telecommunications networks, electronics
equipment and information for the coordination of critical industries
and for warfare. Infowar, the disruption of these information channels,
has become part of modern warfare.

"Infowar" evolved from the psychological operations and disinformation
campaigns of the twentieth century. In addition to leafletting, broadcasting
and other more established methods of information warfare, modern militaries
now use computer viruses, network hacking, encryption cracking and frequency
jamming to wreak havoc on the other side's military operations, financial
institutions, media, transportation and other critical areas.

Such techniques will become more prominent as battlefield equipment
advances in technology. Ever more commonly, soldiers will be wearing helmets
that include microphones, earphones, night-vision goggles and a heads-up
battlefield display. Defeating such gadgetry through jamming or
disinformation will be a crucial component of infowar.

Infowar also includes battle simulations. Computer simulations may
convince strategists whether to fight or not. Entire wars could be fought
virtually, with the participants skipping to the peace treaty based on the
probable outcome as predicted by computers.

Source: October 15, 1995, Times of London article "Dawn of
the cyber soldiers;" Agence France-Presse article "Taiwan armed
with 1,000 viruses."